There’s more warmth than wisdom in the animated Japanese coming-of-age drama “Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko,” an exceptionally well-realized variation on a by-now familiar anime story: a young girl ...

A gleaming and delightful anime with a large appetite for tenderness and laughter, director Ayumu Watanabe’s mother-daughter saga “Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko” boundlessly adores its titular character ...

The story follows a preteen girl named Kikuko who lives in a boat home with her mother — the titular Nikuko. It’s a coming-of-age story that effectively holds to its grounded premise, telling the ...

A mother and adolescent daughter cook together, laugh together and face the usual generational struggles in a film with an unkind point of view. By Calum Marsh When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Margarida Bastos is a native Portuguese writer with an avid interest in gaming, anime, theatre, books, film and TV. Essentially, everything that has to do with the multifaceted nature and fascinating ...

The summer edition of JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles’ Movie & Bites series will feature the animated film, “Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko” on Saturday, July 26. The story follows the relationship between Nikuko ...